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| Monday, July 14th, 2008 |
sylvar
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6:05a |
The Daily Twit
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| Sunday, July 13th, 2008 |
sylvar
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6:06p |
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sylvar
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5:54p |
unintentional racist depiction in a birthday card?
Honi soit qui mal y pense. It was just my demented perception. |
sylvar
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5:29p |
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| Saturday, July 12th, 2008 |
sylvar
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1:18a |
I see dumb people
Not that I particularly want to help the ad industry, but people, please:
When you're buying Google AdWords to sell airfare and accomodations in Turkey, for heaven's sake, use "-thanksgiving"!
There aren't enough Y's in all the Scrabble boards in all the world to properly spell DOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY... |
| Friday, July 11th, 2008 |
sylvar
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10:36p |
My credo I tinkered with the look of my LJ tonight, and decided to use a style that allows custom text. Here's what I put there: I believe in humanity: our indwelling capacity for good, our insatiable desire to make ourselves known to one another, our coruscating passion for knowledge, our ability to handle the truth, and our capacity for learning from really dumb mistakes.
I believe in humor as the universal solvent of ignorance, grief, and fear.
I believe in public libraries.
I believe in using intellectual property rights to establish a sustaining wellspring for the creative endeavors of others; I believe in the Creative Commons license.
I believe in putting final punctuation outside the quotes unless it was present in the original.
I believe in the Oxford comma.
I don't believe in rigid gender lines, violence as national economic policy, or any particular religion (though I'm congenial to many). A friend of mine took a religious education class at a Unitarian Universalist church. No, seriously. One of the products was her own personal credo. This is mine. Current Mood: peaceful |
sylvar
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1:56p |
How To Rebuild Civilization
I think this might be my new favorite TV show. Starting with just a survival knife, we learn how to make fire, how to use that to make lye, and how to use that (with animal fat) to make soap. Other episodes show how to make a clay kiln, how to use that to get copper and tin from ore, and how to use that to make bronze. It never assumes the existence of too much technology -- just the one survival knife and whatever we've learned from previous episodes.
And, hey, the more people who watch HTRC, the better chance we've got of bootstrapping civilization following humanity's next great "whoops". It's a *practical* show.
Now will someone PLEASE do me a favor and start producing this show? I, for one, am waiting eagerly to watch it. All I've got at the moment is this idea, but I know there's got to be someone at the Discovery Channel who wants to buy a full season. |
sylvar
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3:37a |
"Bright Star" Early Learning Center?! Boy oh boy, if I were running a Christian "Early Learning Center", I would NOT name it Bright Star. The connotations are all wrong. Current Mood: shikker |
| Thursday, July 10th, 2008 |
sylvar
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6:09a |
The Daily Twit
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| Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 |
sylvar
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4:19p |
Aha! It's Coldplay's "Talk". According to The Kraftwerk Influence: Samples, it "uses the main melody from Computer Love. Apparently they wrote a personal letter to Ralf and Florian to request permission and got it." Kraftwerk's "Computer Love": Coldplay's "Talk": Most humble apologies for confusing Coldplay and the White Stripes, to fans of either. And to think, it's only three years after Coldplay released the album with "Talk" on it... |
sylvar
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1:04p |
Posted using TxtLJ Is 'Seven Nation Army' the song that makes me keep thinking I'm about to hear a Kraftwerk song on commercial radio? |
| Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 |
sylvar
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5:12p |
Ah... the music of my youth.
For those of you who miss Power 96:
Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: Taylor Dayne - "Tell It To My Heart" (oddly, NOT in this mix!) |
| Monday, July 7th, 2008 |
sylvar
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8:30p |
Woo-hoo! John McCain hates me!  "I hate the bloggers!" Current Mood: proud |
sylvar
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8:10p |
The Golden Compass I finally got to see the movie. I was amazed by two things: one, how much Lyra reminds me of an older Bug, and two, a scene that wasn't in the book [ spoiler here]. When I saw that scene, I was stunned. I actually paused the movie, stood up, and said out loud to nobody in particular, "She... Oh my God, she actually ---!" And apparently Pullman came up with that idea, too, so I guess the Word Of God says it's canon. Current Mood: still kinda horrified |
sylvar
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3:41p |
I love Your DeKalb Farmer's Market What I bought: 1 lb organic cottage cheese
2 six-ounce servings of organic yogurt
A decent-sized wedge of pecorino pepato cheese for grating
A package of soy hot dogs
A pint of blueberries
An Ida Red apple
Paid $10.81. The first three items on the list were 50% off. Yum! |
| Saturday, July 5th, 2008 |
sylvar
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8:09p |
Tonight's dinner experiment Currently sweating: 1 Tbsp. butter
1 Vidalia-grown onion, chopped
1/2 lb. frozen bell peppers (mostly yellow and red, I think)
Several enthusiastic dashes of sweet curry powder from Penzey's
On deck: 1 cup yellow lentils
3 cups water
I wish I had: Golden raisins
$2.49 bottle of chardonnay from Trader Joe's (it's nearby, but I don't want to go out while this cooks)
So whaddaya call 'at, then? Lentil pilaf, I guess. |
sylvar
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7:23p |
Man, if I were Google Books, I'd get so bored.
I've been going through a shoebox of my old photos and scanning the ones good enough to bother with. When I'm done, I'm going to get rid of the prints and just let Flickr archive them.
I've gone through about 40% of the photos in the box, and of those I've scanned about 120; the rest were duplicates or uninteresting.
But I'm surprised how dull my brain has become while doing this. I feel like watching VH1's "I Love the New Millennium" so's I can raise my IQ a bit. |
sylvar
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7:09p |
In honor of Atlanta Pride... Here's a brief (3 min, 16 sec) and very funny musical lesson about Stonewall, in the style of Schoolhouse Rock!. |
sylvar
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3:04p |
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